Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

General references

Bible References

The measure

Genesis 15:16
In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit."
Numbers 32:14
Now look, you are standing in your fathers' place, a brood of sinners, to increase still further the fierce wrath of the Lord against the Israelites.
Zechariah 5:6
I asked, "What is it?" And he replied, "It is a basket for measuring grain that is moving away from here." Moreover, he said, "This is their 'eye' throughout all the earth."

General references

Psalm 106:6
We have sinned like our ancestors; we have done wrong, we have done evil.
Luke 3:20
Herod added this to them all: He locked up John in prison.

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